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Learning to be FLeXibLE

Learning to be FLeXibLE

God has been teaching me a lot lately about being flexible. All of yesterday was spent on a crisis that came upon suddenly & overwhelmingly. Today was busy from the get go and yet I was so determined to build in “mandatory play time as 

Time with the “littles”

Time with the “littles”

The past few months, the older ones have been participating in 4-H shooting sports, which has been one to two evenings a week. Grant takes them & I’ve been staying home with the “littles”. It has been fun to just have the time to focus 

Life with a Toddler…

Life with a Toddler…

How quickly I forgot how often life with a toddler is sometimes 1 step forward & 1 step backwards. Or, if I’m lucky, 2 steps forward & then 1 step backwards. Don’t get me wrong – I love this age! It is so fun! And 

Social Media

Social Media

Starting in 2019, on the 4th of July, we are eliminating and or severely limiting all social media use. We are tired of being Facebook’s and YouTube’s products to sell to their advertisers. Remember, if something is free YOU are the product. Grant deleted his 

Guests

Guests

We love having company. There have been times we have been better about making it happen than others, (going through different seasons of life). With pain issues & young children, it works well to be in our own home, and we are homebodies. We are 

20 Years!

20 Years!

In May we celebrated our 20 year anniversary! WOW. I’m still a little bit in denial – I’ve been married more than half my life!!!!😃😄 (Yes, I have 2 BIG milestones this year – our 20 year anniversary & I’ll be 40 this Dec!) 😍😏 

Sunsets

Sunsets

The sunsets from our deck are fantabulous…I just can’t get enough of them. These pictures were all taken one night, in a half hour span. I can’t pick my favorite! Beautiful sunsets from our back deck

Homemade rolls

Homemade rolls

We LOVE homemade bread. I’ve been making it for years. It started out as bread, but over the years we’ve discovered that we prefer rolls. They seem to stay fresh longer & are more versatile, & less crumbly (homemade bread is notoriously crumbly). The kids 

Kid Dates

Kid Dates

We try to go on dates with our kids frequently (the goal is twice a month, so each child gets to have a date every 2-3 months. Sometimes we make it more frequently & other times, if we are busy, it’s less often, but that’s 

Pool time

Pool time

We “inherited” a pool when we purchased this house. Funny, we didn’t even notice it the first time we looked at the house. And we never “wanted” a pool…we have never been much of pool people, most of our kids had never even taken swim